Study on the Harmonization of the Digital Economy and the Quality of Employment

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jnme.202410101

Author(s)

Huiyan Zhang*, Xiaoyu Guo, Xiaoli Zhang

Affiliation(s)

Harbin Finance University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China *Corresponding Author

Abstract

The impact of the digital economy on employment quality is twofold, and the rapid development of the digital economy brings opportunities as well as some challenges. In order to study the interactive coupling relationship between the digital economy and the quality of employment, the positive effects of the development of the digital economy in promoting the growth of total employment, the optimization of the technical structure of employment, and the improvement of the quality, as well as its differentiated effects and negative impacts on the employment of different groups, industries, and regions, are respectively elaborated from the theoretical point of view. It is found that the development of the digital economy may widen the income gap between different groups, may reduce economic efficiency, and may increase the imbalance of regional development, based on which, the digital economy should be vigorously developed, the optimization and upgrading of the employment structure should be continuously promoted, and workers should be guided to transfer to the digital economy in an orderly manner, and the cultivation of digital talents should be innovated, the digital skills of workers should be improved, and the construction of digital infrastructure should be accelerated, so as to narrow the regional, industry differences in employment in the digital economy.

Keywords

Digital Economy; Quality of Employment; Structure of Employment; Digital Infrastructure Development

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